use Perl

look at this piece of code in vbscript (remember that vbscript is apparently a non-typing language) :
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intValue1 = request.form("value1") ' 88
intValue2 = request.form("value2") ' 133 ..

hundreds of lines of html mixed with vbscript ..

if intValue1 intValue2 then
    response.write("right")
else
    response.write("wrong")
end if
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you would expect to get 'right' as 88 is less than 133 but vbscript being a Pile of Crud treats the values as strings so that 88 is somehow more than 133 - wtf?!?!

in perl I wouldn't have to worry about numerical operations on values because perl has scalars that work. vbscript however means you have to be sure that you have cast a variable to int before doing any numerical operations on it to avoid unpredictable and nasty behaviour.

EDITED :: I think the reason this happens is because sometimes rather than fetched directly from the form values the values are pulled from an array created by splitting a string. Nonetheless they should be treated as numbers when numerical operations are done on them - and to make matters worse now when I add cint to all the lines where the form.request values are fetched I get a type mismatch - in a typeless language ffs!!

bah!!!